Hawkeye

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Iron, Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10022636
MRDS ID FS00004
Record type Site
Current site name Hawkeye

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.99509, 41.15357 (WGS84)
Elevation 3200
Relative position Unverifiable.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Snake(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 014N 085W 30 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Assumed the STR was correct so ABW moved the lat/long coordinates to the middle of that section. The mine originally plotted at 106-55 and 41-11, no seconds given.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore

Analytical data

Result MIN. EXAM. FS. 1962

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.99509, 41.15357

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sierra Madre Range

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Medicine Bow

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. R. Crow Co.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MIN. EXAM. FS. 1962.

  • Deposit

    1962 OTHER FS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit No reliable reference. Record could not be verified.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1976 Sierk, Betty M. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 31-OCT-2008 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.